【正文】 仲．跨文化交際學(xué)概論．北京：外語教學(xué)與研究出版社。 cultural differences。 Food culture of a country and a regional is often the cultural enrichment of it. Chinese and AngloAmerican and other western countries has some significant differences in the view and attitudes about diet ， diet content and features. Revealing the reasons for these differences is not only helpful to cross the cultural gap but also helpful to global cultural integration. 1 The food culture differences between China and west Culture is a floorboard of the life style that condensed by people in the longtime social life. When a nation formed a fixed diet, diet tips and diet, but once, they constitute a subculture. 3 There are four significant differences between Chinese and AngloAmerican and other western countries about the views and attitudes on diet, diet content and features。 and at the same time, people started to expand a pursuit of delicious. The choices of cooking materials. Westerners think the dishes are to fill their stomach, so they eat large pieces of meat, chicken and other block. China?s cuisine is “Taste”, so when cooking, showing a great arbitrariness in the selected materials: many things that thrown away by westerners may seem 4 as an excellent raw material to Chinese people. Western raw materials are mainly animal and marine fish, supplemented with plant。 the second is to show Chinese culture, unique characteristics of love. The core of Confucian thought is “benevolent love,” which has a great influence to traditional Chinese culture. The western culture. A broad sense refers to Western culture is the cultural system that arising from the hemisphere corresponding to the west and east cu 7 lture. While the narrow sense of Western culture that refers only to European culture. In discussing the causes and source of Western culture, this article take the narrow sense of Western culture. The childhood of Western culture the Greek civilization is one of the world?s oldest civilizations. The source of her culture is Aegean Sea that located at Northeast Mediterranean. The unique climate and geographical caused the unique lifestyle of Greece and culture. From the origin of sense, because of this cradle of civilization is ancient Greece Mediterranean, what the life materials it can provide are not so substantial. People must strive to explore the mysteries of nature, as much as possible to obtain from the nature of wealth, and then explore the mystery of natural world, development and utilization of natural resources in the service of humanity has bee the mainstream of the European spirit. This kind of exploration of nature and the desire to conquer stimulate the birth of nature technology. In the process of conquest nature, foster awareness westerners pay special attention to the development of rational thought, so reason has bee a typical feature of Western culture. Reason is to explore the natural process of sober reflection, analysis, and rigorous logic, seek to act in line with the objective laws of nature, and at the same time people continue to understand their own during the process of understanding nature. Another major feature of Western c 8 ulture: that the individual for the munitybased, selfcentered, focusing on personal dignity. Clear demarcation between the interests of everyone, everyone has his own living space, mutual noninterference. Western culture is a kind of “guilt culture”, which followed the original sign of Christianity, said that the pr